Later starts for Game of The Week on FOX

[BRice16]

Re: Fox = NY Honks

For the record, here's Buck's schedule from this past season (from memory, so there may be some errors) ...
16: In studio
17: Falcons/Eagles

As I stated earlier, Buck was in studio for Week 17. (The Falcons/Eagles game was the one in which the Eagles, after learning they clinched a playoff berth, sent out their scrubs.)
And Week 16 was when the Giants got slammed by the Saints 30-7, and I know Buck called that game because I recall hearing his voice under seeing highlights on another station.

You recall incorrectly, because Buck was in studio the last two weeks of the NFL season, weeks 16 and 17. Paragraph 4: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sp...258714CBB28E06348625726900167B37?OpenDocument

 

[genius]

Enough about the "terrible ratings" for the World Series. They were in the teens, I think Fox will take that for primetime. It was about the same as the NBA Finals and among all sports, was behind only the championships for the NFL and college football and the Olympics and Daytona 500 and might have been beat some games by the college basketball championship. At its best it beat every golf major, the World Cup, and walloped tennis, the NHL, and all the lesser sports. A down year for the World Series is still pretty damn good.

Excellent point. Working in the TV business I know that while network ratings are in decline, there are some factors going into it other than "lack of interest", namely Nielsen's medievel system of ratings, which finally included college dorms. So far it's been successful for shows who have low demo ratings for the 18-24 demo.

But still its interesting to realize that a show like CSI could have been percieved 20 years ago as "only" having a middle of the road rating.